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Pardot vs. Hubspot: Part 2

Marketers spend so much effort developing and executing their marketing campaigns. Almost all marketers would agree with that. But what is often missing is a clear and concise way to report on the campaign results and this has a negative trickledown effect. If a reporting strategy isn’t put in place, the calculation of your return on investment (ROI) could become…
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Calculate Multi-channel Lead Acquisition Costs Using Salesforce

How much does it cost you to acquire a lead? Which marketing tactics actually resulted in successful interactions? You’ll be all too familiar that the digital marketing industry releases new innovations each year. Multi-channel marketing has become mega-multi-channel. Scaling up campaigns to take advantage of more channels is one thing – however, being able to pinpoint what’s actually working is…
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MCAE (Pardot) Email Builder Image Dimensions

When using the new Email Builder, you may struggle to find the correct image size for different column widths. Often, it’s a trial-by-error game. Does this look familiar? (See how the image needs resizing for smaller columns.) Here is a handy guide. It shows you the approximate Email Builder image dimensions for different column widths. You can print, cut, and…
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You Bought Pardot, Now What?

A number of years ago I received a call from a large enterprise asking me if we could assist them with implementing their marketing automation platform? Before we got into the specifics of what they needed I asked her this question, “what do you plan to do with your system?”  There was an awkward silence and she then replied, “what…
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Salesforce Campaign Flows

Create Campaign Member Statuses Automatically with Salesforce Flow

Salesforce campaign member statuses are hugely important but are often overlooked, or not used properly. The breakdown of which prospects are interacting, and when, will give you insight into how your campaigns are performing. Pardot (oops, I mean Marketing Cloud Account Engagement) can update Salesforce campaign member status based on a prospect’s engagement with each asset/campaign by using completion actions.…
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Pardot vs HubSpot Comparison Guide Part 1

As a demand generation agency, we at Invado Solutions are consistently asked for comparisons between different marketing automation platforms.  Having been in the marketing automation space for the past 20 years we can confidently say that 90% of marketers’ challenges are due to their lack of strategy rather than the marketing automation platform that they’ve chosen. That being said, there…
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Pardot Completion Actions

Top Summer ‘22 Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) Updates

It’s been a wild season with multiple updates sprinkled in between the releases – namely Pardot rebranded to Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, the go.pardot.com security update, and the ever-changing privacy landscape – you may be relieved to hear that the Summer ‘22 release is relatively light on Pardot updates. We could call this the “release of the completion action”. Plus,…
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Pardot ABM

Demand Generation vs. ABM

  In 2014, I was a speaker at an ITSMA event in California and it was the first time I had been to a B2B marketing event where Account Based Marketing (ABM) was the focus of the event. At the time, Jon Miller had just started Engagio and Terminus was in its infancy stages. For many of the attendees, this…
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Pardot Custom Field Mapping with Salesforce: The API Field Name Trap

Pardot custom field mapping is more challenging than you may think. In Pardot, you have the Prospect object – in Salesforce, however, there are more objects at play. Salesforce Leads and Contacts are separate records that represent the same person – in Pardot, these “people” records are combined under one umbrella (“Prospects”). Someone can either be a Lead or a…
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Salesforce Pardot Contact Layouts

Baking Marketing Insights into Salesforce Record Pages

A recipe for success from Slalom’s Pardot kitchen. The more Pardot integrates with Salesforce, the more marketing information there is to surface within the platform. From read-only Pardot fields to dashboards, organization is crucial for keeping your Salesforce record pages from looking like a kitchen junk drawer.
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Dynamic Lists to Clean Up Your Database

Lara Black inspired and contributed to this blog. Are you trying to keep your mailable limit down?   Marketers often find themselves creeping close to their mailable limit and either have to clean out the MCAE (Pardot) database or pay up.   Go to Pardot Settings > Account Settings > Usage and limits to see where you stand. Look at your current…
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How to Clear a Dedupliction Error from the Sync Queue (and stop it from happening)

The Pardot-Salesforce Connector Sync Queue is one of those things that a good admin knows to check regularly, and one of those things that, maddeningly, has no way of sending you a proactive alert that there's something "stuck" in it. One of the most common reasons that something gets stuck is that the Salesforce duplication rules are in place and…
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Warning! Do not Pass Go.Pardot.Com

Plus a bonus note on a little-used but handy way to use Pardot (MCAE*) FormsThere's already been a fair amount written about the upcoming security upgrades to Pardot that impacts how content served if you embed forms using go.Pardot.com on your website instead of a custom tracker domain (which if you don't have one set up, do this asap). In…
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Pardot First-Party Tracking

Third-party cookies have been the pinnacle of tracking and marketing for many years. If you’ve had Pardot’s default tracking code set up on your website for a long time, odds are you are using third-party tracking. However, in 2020 web giant Google announced they would be phasing out third-party cookie tracking by 2022. Other browsers like Safari, have options to…
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A Quick and Easy Way to A/B Split Your Marketing Automation Database

Sometimes it's helpful to be able to split our data into a couple of chunks to make it more manageable. Maybe we want to A/B test a subject line, or simply to candence sending times in an automation. Here's a really simple way to automatically split your database so you can use that split in any list or automation. 1.…
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